the world

i used to belive that america WAS the world i was preety darn confused b/c i herd that there were many contries but. . .n e wayz yeah i was confused lol

I used to believe that if you kept driving in the direction of a beautiful pink sunset, you would get to my parents homeleand of Lebanon. Once on a trip my dad pointed to the very beautiful sunset up ahead and said something like it reminds him of Lebanon. I thought he said it IS Lebanon. I like the magical-ness of it, still do:)

I remember hearing about how our country owes billions of dollars, I asked my father why the people at the white house just doesn't order the money makers to print more hundred dollar bills out to pay whomever they owed.

When I was about 5 years old I used to think that the loud speakers you see at marathons (the cone shaped ones) which contain a bottle-shaped object in their centre actually contained the champagne that the winner of the race would receive at the end.

As a child, I had the idea that Japan was a country the shape of what I now know to be France, and it was between China and India.

when i was a kid i loved the cartoon "beetlejuice" (a spin off from the movie) and i heard about a country called the Netherlands and i was incredulous.

i was like "wait, the netherworld (the world beetlejuice and all dead people lived in) is a REAL PLACE?!?!?!?"

from then on, i believed that the netherworld was a actual place you could visit in the real world

I used to believe…

that there were 52 states- alaska and hawaii right?

When I was in first or second grade, I asked a dusky-skinned girl what nationality she was. She told me she was Indian, and I told her something along the lines of that she couldn't be because Indians wore their hair in braids and she didn't. It wasn't until years later that I realized she meant Indians from India rather than Native Americans (who in old pictures most always have their hair braided). However, for years after that, she often, if not always, wore her hair braided, and I wonder now if she took my words to heart.

When my brother was very small he somehow got the idea that all people of color were from New York. I don't know how he came up with that.

I used to beleive that when you were playing baseball it would only count of you hit a homer.

When my dad would drive us around in the car, we would continuously yell out from the back seat "Where are we going? Where are we going?" My dad would say "Berserk". I was a teenager before I realized that "berserk" was a state of mind and not a destination.

When I was young, my brother, who was 3 years older than me & played baseball, once said that his team got to use the "big diamond" for the next game. For quite some time I imagined this Little League team using a huge, shiny, precious gemstone... and was a little envious.

I used to believe that you can tell the Chinese from the Japanese by the way their eyes slant. Eyes of the Chinese slant downwards and eyes of the Japanese slant upwards.

I used to think that the President of the United States did the evening news because Ronald Reagan looked a lot like Dan Rather to me.

I moved to Texas when I was 10, and I had just seen "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" where he has to go to the basement of the Alamo to find his bike. I was super bummed when I went to the Alamo, and it looked nothing like the movie.

I thought that change was just the clerk giving you back the exact amount of money you'd handed over. I thought it was a ritual formality thing, and I never saw the point.